Grace contacts the owners of the farm adjacent to the methane well site to ask permission to place her air monitors on their property. They invite her to one of their Radical Self-Sufficiency workshops and promise to discuss her proposal afterwards. Now she’s burning an entire Saturday for something she learned the hard way—by living it. They said to wear old clothes and be prepared for mud.

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